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Four Steps to Transform Unwieldy Data into a Captivating Story That Motivates and Inspires
Four Steps to Transform Unwieldy Data into a Captivating Story That Motivates and Inspires
In the push for meaningful metrics, an abundance of data can overwhelm even the most statistics-savvy professi...
A Human-Centered Approach to Effective Data Storytelling
A Human-Centered Approach to Effective Data Storytelling
Data storytelling is a powerful tool in driving transformational change, and one of the most difficult to mast...
To Improve Employee Retention, Re-Examine Your Employee Experience
To Improve Employee Retention, Re-Examine Your Employee Experience
Your employee experience means everything. Reinvent the experience to create a more desirable, productive work...
Transform Your Meeting Culture: Strategies and Tools for Engaging and Productive Sessions
Transform Your Meeting Culture: Strategies and Tools for Engaging and Productive Sessions
Revolutionize your meetings. Turn frustration into productivity using a strategic approach and powerful tools....
Five Steps to Build a More Agile Change Management Strategy
Five Steps to Build a More Agile Change Management Strategy
If a change management strategy is to be effective, agility is critical. Surprisingly, many change management ...
Why Your “Process Problem” Probably Isn’t a Process Problem
Why Your “Process Problem” Probably Isn’t a Process Problem
Plagued by what seems like a stubborn process problem in your organization? You may be surprised to learn the ...
Changing Change Management: The Shift from Process-Centered to People-Centered
Changing Change Management: The Shift from Process-Centered to People-Centered
Developed in a bygone era, traditional business models—such as change management—are trailing the era in w...
Five Steps to Transforming the Customer Experience and Accelerating Growth
Five Steps to Transforming the Customer Experience and Accelerating Growth
Studies show an organization’s focus on customers increases referrals, retention rates, and employee engagem...
The Right Tool for the Job: Three Simple Steps to Better Communications
The Right Tool for the Job: Three Simple Steps to Better Communications
Like wide-eyed kids in a candy shop, we’re faced with an enticing array of communication tools day and night...
Five Tools to Create a Solid Strategic Plan
Five Tools to Create a Solid Strategic Plan
Strategic planning is a bit like climbing a mountain. You can’t always see where you’re going, it’s toug...
8 Insightful Steps to Improve Employee Experience
8 Insightful Steps to Improve Employee Experience
What does it mean to be people-centered and how can this approach enhance the employee experience? A simple vi...
Responding Effectively to Rapid and Unexpected Change
Responding Effectively to Rapid and Unexpected Change
With the advent of COVID-19, we’re all in the midst of sudden change right now, responding as quickly as we ...
Improve Communication Skills by Using Visuals: A Case for Visual Literacy
Improve Communication Skills by Using Visuals: A Case for Visual Literacy
If visual language is so universally and rapidly understood, why don’t we use it more often? Can this valuab...
Organizational Adulting: You Are What and How You Communicate
Organizational Adulting: You Are What and How You Communicate
Radical shifts are happening in the way we communicate at work. What and how we communicate can mean the diffe...
Published on Forbes: Seven Steps For Bringing Design Thinking To Your Sales Processes
Published on Forbes: Seven Steps For Bringing Design Thinking To Your Sales Processes
Use these seven design thinking lessons–specifically service design–to inform a better sales process for y...
Organizational Adulting: Overcoming Apathy and Disengagement in the Workplace
Organizational Adulting: Overcoming Apathy and Disengagement in the Workplace
Disengaged employees are not doomed to soul-destroying days in the office. When we build meaning into our work...
Organizational Adulting: Divisive Workplace Behaviors and How to Overcome Them
Organizational Adulting: Divisive Workplace Behaviors and How to Overcome Them
70% of XPLANE community survey respondents felt divisive workplace behaviors were their biggest organizational...
Organizational Adulting: Your Barriers + Our Insights = A Live Conversation
Organizational Adulting: Your Barriers + Our Insights = A Live Conversation
Non-adult behaviors are significant barriers to organizational change. It’s is time to have real conversatio...
Introduction to Organizational Adulting: Insights That Lead to Better Ways of Working
Introduction to Organizational Adulting: Insights That Lead to Better Ways of Working
With over 25+ years of culture mapping experience, XPLANE has uncovered many work behaviors and interactions t...
Implementation is Where Good Process Improvement Plans Go to Die
Implementation is Where Good Process Improvement Plans Go to Die
Six steps to save your process improvement plan from dying out....
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE for consulting?
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE for consulting?
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE as a consulting partner? Guidance on how a design thinking consulting fir...
Deliver Great User-Experience in Global Organizations
Deliver Great User-Experience in Global Organizations
Many traditional organizations are now driving away both potential employees and new business by not putting t...
XPLANE’s Partner Rackspace Helps Navigate Your Journey to the Cloud
XPLANE’s Partner Rackspace Helps Navigate Your Journey to the Cloud
Winning companies foster innovation, quickly respond to market changes, and adapt to business fluctuations. Ra...
Why Organizations Need to Innovate Their Business Model Now
Why Organizations Need to Innovate Their Business Model Now
Don’t Wait for Disruption! An Interview with Business Innovation Factory's Saul Kaplan on business model des...